Patricia Arquette

About

Patricia T. Arquette (born April 8, 1968) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut as Kristen Parker in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987). Her other notable films include True Romance (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Lost Highway (1997), The Hi-Lo Country (1998), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Stigmata (1999), Holes (2003), Fast Food Nation (2006), The Wannabe (2015), and Toy Story 4 (2019). For playing a divorced mother in the coming-of-age drama film Boyhood (2014), which was filmed from 2002 until 2014, Arquette received widespread critical praise and won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. On television, she played the character Allison DuBois—based on the author and medium Allison DuBois, who claims to have psychic abilities—in the supernatural drama series Medium (2005–2011). She won the...

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Law & Order: Special Victims UnitSeries • 1999CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationSeries • 2000MediumSeries • 2005American PlayhouseSeries • 1982SeveranceSeries • 2022Boardwalk EmpireSeries • 2010Screen TwoSeries • 1985Tales from the CryptSeries • 1989Toy Story 4Movie • 2019thirtysomethingSeries • 1987They Will Kill YouMovie • 2026Bringing Out the DeadMovie • 1999The ActSeries • 2019CSI: CyberSeries • 2015Lost HighwayMovie • 1997True RomanceMovie • 1993Murdaugh: Death in the FamilySeries • 2025BoyhoodMovie • 2014High DesertSeries • 2023Escape at DannemoraSeries • 2018HolesMovie • 2003Ed WoodMovie • 1994Uncle BuckMovie • 1989Little NickyMovie • 2000